Lebanon Today
The Clasico match between Real Madrid and Barcelona witnessed the intervention of video technology on two occasions, denying “Real Madrid” two clear opportunities to score.
“Real Madrid” hosted its rival “Barcelona” on Sunday evening, on the أرضية “Santiago Bernabéu” stadium, as part of the tenth round of the Spanish League.
In the fourth minute, a penalty kick was awarded to the Brazilian star “Vinicius Junior,” a “Real Madrid” player, after a challenge from the “Barcelona” midfielder, the Dutch “Frenkie de Jong.”
But after reviewing the video technology, it became clear that “De Jong” had touched the ball first, and that “Vinicius'” foot had collided with him by mistake.
In the 14th minute, the video technology canceled a wonderful goal scored by “Kylian Mbappé,” due to an offside on the French star.
“Real Madrid” had taken the lead in the 22nd minute through a goal scored by “Kylian Mbappé,” before “Fermin Lopez” equalized the score for “Barca” in the 38th minute, then “الملكي” returned to take the lead again in the 43rd minute through “Bellingham.”
“Mbappé” also scored a goal in the 45th minute that was ruled out for offside.
The “Real Madrid” lineup was as follows:
Goalkeeper: “Thibaut Courtois”
Defense: “Álvaro Carreras” – “Dean Huijsen” – “Éder Militão” – “Fede Valverde”
Midfield: “Jude Bellingham” – “Aurélien Tchouaméni” – “Eduardo Camavinga” – “Arda Güler”
Attack: “Vinicius Junior” – “Kylian Mbappé”.
As for the “Barcelona” lineup, it included:
Goalkeeper: “Wojciech Szczęsny”
Defense: “Alejandro Baldé” – “Eric García” – “Pau Cubarsí” – “Jules Koundé”
Midfield: “Pedri González” – “Frenkie de Jong” – “Fermin López”
Attack: “Ferran Torres” – “Marcus Rashford” – “Lamine Yamal”
Looking at the situation of the two teams before the Clasico:
“Barcelona” has played nine matches so far in the Spanish League, during which it managed to achieve seven victories, compared to one draw and one defeat.
The only draw for “Barca” was against “Rayo Vallecano” with one goal for each team, while the loss came against “Sevilla” with a large score of 1-4.
As for “Real Madrid”, it played the same number of matches, during which it achieved 8 victories and one defeat, which was also with a large score against “Atlético Madrid” with a score of 2-5.
“Barcelona” has collected 22 points so far, occupying the second place in the standings, two points behind “Real Madrid”, which regained its lead thanks to its victory over “Getafe” with a clean goal, which ignited the situation before the anticipated Clasico.
The suffering of the “Clasico”:
The 2024-2025 season is considered a real nightmare for “Real Madrid” in the Clasico matches, as “Los Merengues” have not been able to achieve any victory over “Barcelona”, and have lost three direct titles to “Barca”.
In the league, the two teams met for the first time last season in the 11th round, which was held on the same date as the upcoming match on October 26, and “Barcelona” achieved a crushing victory with a score of 4-0, in the first meeting for “Hans Flick” as coach of “Barca” in the Clasico, in the face of veteran “Carlo Ancelotti”, who had achieved a series of four consecutive victories in the Clasico before this match.
At that time, the attacking trio in “Barcelona” played an active role in the match, as they shook the net of “Real Madrid” with four goals, all of which came in the second half, when striker “Robert Lewandowski” scored two goals, and wingers “Lamine Yamal” and “Raphinha” signed the other two goals.
After that, the two teams met again in the Spanish Super Cup final, which was held in Saudi Arabia, and “Blaugrana” control continued. Despite “Kylian Mbappé” advancing for “Real Madrid” with an early goal just 5 minutes after the start, “Barcelona” returned to score five consecutive goals signed by “Lamine Yamal”, “Lewandowski”, “Raphinha” (two goals) and “Alejandro Balde”, in a match that ended in the end with a 5-2 victory, and “Barcelona” was crowned with the title at the expense of its eternal rival.
The Clasico was repeated for the third time in the season, when the two teams had a date in the final of the King’s Cup of Spain on April 26, 2025, and at that time the match was going in favor of “Real Madrid” after returning from a goal behind to win by two goals in just 7 minutes, and then “Mbappé” and “Tchouaméni” scored two goals in the 70th and 77th minutes, so everyone expected that the match had ended in favor of “Real Madrid” for the first time in the season.
But “Ferran Torres”, the “Barcelona” striker, had another opinion, as he scored a deadly goal in the 84th minute, so the two sides resorted to extra time, and “Jules Koundé” succeeded in scoring a deadly goal in the 116th minute, giving “Barcelona” the cup title at the expense of “Real Madrid” again.
As for the fourth meeting, it came in the “Barcelona” stronghold in the second leg of the league in the 35th round, and also despite “Real Madrid” advancing with two goals after 14 minutes, the “Barcelona” comeback was also present with the scoring of four goals, so the meeting ended in the end with a 4-3 victory for “Barca” and settled the league title in its favor.
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